Hi david

 >> I'm trying to show the size of a file with ftell() and printf().
 >> Something like:
 >> printf("The file is %u bytes long", ftell(filename));
 >> works ok until the file gets larger than 64k.

 dn> RTFM, "%lu".

I read it, tried various things, but I can't work it out. %lu doesn't work.
It leaves that field blank. If I use %u it works fine up to 64k then
overflows.

This is QuickC for Windows in Ansi mode. If you reckon that %lu definitely
works could you post a quick and dirty program which shows the size of a
file using %lu and I'll compile it on QuickC and see what happens.

("The file is %u bytes long", ftell(filename));   ...causes
overflow after 64k.

("The file is %lu bytes long", ftell(filename));  ...causes an
extra space between
                                                     "is" and
"bytes"!

 >> Then the
 >> unsigned integer of %u is too small. Is there a way of
 >> getting printf to handle the long integer, or do I have to
 >> convert the number to a string first?

 dn> That's precisely what printf() does - converts types to ascii. :-)

Yeah, I know, but it seems like my version doesn't handle long integers...
seems that way. I'm ready to be corrected if I've missed something!

Simeon.


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